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Plymouth
Riverside is a quiet, secluded countryside park, which is open all year, just a few hundred yards from the A38 in Plymouth, Devon.
What quarry was also known as "Royal Oak Quarry"?
Lower Ashton, Exeter
Award-winning Devon attraction set in 90 acres of ancient woodland and parkland on the edge of Dartmoor National Park. Home to the South West's highest waterfall, a Victorian fern garden with National Collection status, seven lakes, adventure playgrounds, café and gift shop.
Manaton, Newton Abbot
Dartmoor's iconic woodland park with a spectacular 70ft waterfall, 50 acres of ancient SSSI woodland, animals, nature trails and family activities.
Buckfastleigh
National Trust ancient oak woodland on the River Dart near Buckfastleigh, a Site of Special Scientific Interest home to two historic monuments and rare wildlife including greater and lesser horseshoe bats.
Shaugh Prior, Plymouth
National Trust ancient oak woodland in the Plym and Meavy valleys near Shaugh Prior, a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its moss and lichen diversity, with 19th-century mining remains and an Iron Age hillfort around the Dewerstone.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Dartmoor is not dying but it is changing, and we should all be concerned about the increasing and significant pressures on this precious landscape, communities, and heritage.”
Also on Our DartmoorLowton Farmhouse — A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the southern moor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.
